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Re: Quiz: XML flexibility

  • To: Michael Kay <mike@s...>
  • Subject: Re: Quiz: XML flexibility
  • From: Razvan MIHAIU <mihaiu@m...>
  • Date: Sun, 27 Feb 2005 22:32:04 +0200
  • Cc: xml-dev@l...
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elements of design quiz
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>Sounds like it came from an XML accreditation test: such things are nearly
>always stupid.
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    Your guess is right.
    What about flexibility ? I am more interested in what you have to say about
that.




Regards,
Razvan


>Michael Kay
>http://www.saxonica.com/
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>>-----Original Message-----
>>From: Razvan MIHAIU [mailto:mihaiu@m...]
>>Sent: 27 February 2005 20:00
>>To: xml-dev@l...
>>Subject:  Quiz: XML flexibility
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>>Hi,
>>
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>>	In an XML quiz I found the following question:
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>>A company wants to develop an EDI system, which will help it
>>to integrate with
>>its various trading partners (suppliers and clients). Their
>>previous attempt
>>failed, as it required a unique implementation for each pair
>>of trading
>>partners. Now they want to explore the capabilities of XML to
>>make this system
>>efficient.
>>
>>The company wants to keep the structure of XML documents
>>flexible and open to
>>future changes. Which of the following is most likely implied by this
>>requirement ?
>>
>>A. XML Schema;
>>B. mixed content model;
>>C. XSL stylesheets;
>>D. validating parser;
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>>Correct answer: B
>>My choice: A
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>>
>>	Isn't this a dumb question ? I mean if you choose A you
>>can certainly use mixed
>>content model with XML Schema, so answer A and B are not exclusive.
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>>	What I am really trying to understand is "what is
>>flexibility" ? In any XML
>>document you can add elements and attributes at will if you update the
>>associated schema. Old applications would just ignore the new
>>elements and
>>attributes, so "flexibility" is build-in into XML. So, what
>>are you doing when
>>you want to design a flexible XML document ?
>>
>>	Can somebody give me an example of an XML document that
>>is *not* flexible as
>>opposed to one that it is ?
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>>
>>Regards,
>>Razvan
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>>
>>www.mihaiu.name
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